Committee for Finance

The Committee for Finance is a Northern Ireland Assembly committee established to advise, assist and scrutinise the work of the Department of Finance and the Minister of Finance (currently Caoimhe Archibald). The committee also plays a key role in the consultation, consideration and development of new legislation.^[1]

Until 2016, the committee was called the Committee for Finance and Personnel.

2022–2027 Assembly

The committee will meet for the first time in the 2022–2027 Assembly on 14 February 2024.

Party		Member[2]	Constituency
	SDLP	Matthew O'Toole MLA (Chairperson)	Belfast South
	DUP	Diane Forsythe MLA (Deputy Chairperson)	South Down
	UUP	Steve Aiken MLA	South Antrim
	DUP	Phillip Brett MLA	Belfast North
	Sinn Féin	Nicola Brogan MLA	West Tyrone
	People Before Profit	Gerry Carroll MLA	Belfast West
	DUP	Paul Frew MLA	North Antrim
	Sinn Féin	Deirdre Hargey MLA	Belfast South
	Alliance	Eóin Tennyson MLA	Upper Bann

Chairpersons

	Minister	Image	Party	Took office	Left office
	Francie Molloy		Sinn Féin	30 November 1999	28 April 2003
Office suspended
	Mitchel McLaughlin		Sinn Féin	9 May 2007	8 September 2009
	Jennifer McCann		Sinn Féin	9 September 2009	19 January 2011
	Daithí McKay		Sinn Féin	20 January 2011	25 March 2011
	Conor Murphy		Sinn Féin	16 May 2011	1 July 2012
	Daithí McKay		Sinn Féin	2 July 2012	6 May 2016
	Emma Little-Pengelly		DUP	25 May 2016	26 January 2017
Office suspended
	Steve Aiken		UUP	14 January 2020	Present

See also

• Committee